Koalas to be protected: Deborah Tabart

The federal government has announced koalas will be placed on the list of threatened species. The move will apply to koalas in Queensland, NSW and the ACT, as numbers in other states remain relatively high. The decision to include the nation's most at-risk koala populations on the list of threatened species has been welcomed by the Australian Koala Foundation, which has been campaigning for the protection of the marsupial for decades.